Berrysburg Borough Launches Web Site, 2017
An announcement has come from Lahn Kopp of the Berrysburg Borough Council, Berrysburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, that a new web site, Berrysburg.org, was launched in 2017. The site has pages […]
Gratz Fire of 1924 – Harry Smith Denounces Townspeople for Short-Sightedness
In the early morning hours of 3 November 1924, a disastrous fire swept through the center of Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The perfect storm of the failure of the borough […]
Harvey S. Matter (1891-1948) – Clerk in County Quarter Sessions Court
HARVEY S. MATTER PASSED AWAY WEDNESDAY Harvey S. Matter, 57, Deputy Clerk in the Office of Dauphin County Clerk of Quarter Sessions Court, died in the Harrisburg Hospital about 5:30 […]
Statement on Election of 1928 by Imperial Wizard of Ku Klux Klan
In the presidential election of 1928, Governor Alfred E. Smith, the candidate of the Democratic Party who by faith was a Roman Catholic, was pitted against Herbert Hoover, the candidate […]
Harry Edwin Buffington (1867-1938)
HARRY EDWIN BUFFINGTON – ATTORNEY – BORO SOLICITOR – BURIED WEDNESDAY Funeral services for Attorney H. E. Buffington, Lykens, who died at his residence in North Second Street on Saturday, […]
Valley View – Post Office, 1911
The address side of a picture post card mailed from Valley View, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, hand canceled on 11 May 1911. The addressee is Mrs. Adam Schoffstall, Gratz, Dauphin County, […]
Samuel H. Miller (1876-1945)
SAMUEL H. MILLER Samuel H. Miller, age 69 years, widely known merchant, of Wiconisco, died in the Geisinger Memorial Hospital, Danville, 9 October 1945, following an operation. He had been […]
William Elmer Matter (1879-1941) – Elizabethville Borough Councilman
W. E. MATTER, BOROUGH COUNCILMAN, PASSED AWAY FRIDAY William E. Matter, age 62 years, a [Elizabethville] Borough Councilman, died at his home, West Main street, town, Friday afternoon, following an […]